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conholster · 2012-03-18, 03:51:22

Cant find a need a bare bones theme template. Something with just the bare essentials. Anyone wanna help?

yojoe · 2012-03-18, 06:01:50

There are two default templates in GS.
If you are familiar with building website templates, or at least html pages, just go through GS wiki, and you should easily build a GS template from scratch on your own.
There are 4 base tags you actually need:
1. show page title
2. embed page's header
3. show menu
4. show page content
easy as it sounds Smile

Carlos · (This post was last modified: 2012-03-18, 17:58:03 by fotothink.)

@yojoe
I would add:
5. get_footer (for plugins that embed scripts)

@conholster
I suggest you take a look at template.php's source code in some basic themes like Cardinal or the nice old Getsimple default theme.

Anyway here's a quick example.
We have a very basic html sample page:

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

    <title>Page title - Site name</title>

</head>

<body>

    <strong>Site name</strong> - <a href="http://mysite/">home</a>

    <hr>

    <h1>Page title</h1>

    <p>

        Here goes the page content.

    </p>

    <p>

        More content...

    </p>

    <hr>

    menu:

    <ul>

        <!-- li elements with menu links -->

    </ul>

</body>

</html>

Insert some basic template tags instead of the sample content:

Code:
<?php if(!defined('IN_GS')){ die('you cannot load this page directly.'); } ?>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

    <title><?php get_page_clean_title(); ?> - <?php get_site_name(); ?></title>

    <?php get_header(); ?>

</head>

<body>

    <strong><?php get_site_name(); ?></strong> - <a href="<?php get_site_url(); ?>">home</a>

    <hr>

    <h1><?php get_page_title(); ?></h1>

    <?php get_page_content(); ?>

    <hr>

    menu:

    <ul>

        <?php get_navigation(return_page_slug()); ?>

    </ul>

    <?php get_footer(); ?>

</body>

</html>

Save this as template.php in its own folder (inside themes), and you're done.

Edit: Make sure you're saving it as UTF-8 without BOM.

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